September 27, 2011 in Business, Business Articles, Environment by jferris

People Can Take Measures to Ensure They Have Good Water at Home

Understandably, there is concern about polluted rainwater ruining our groundwater, but in reality the problem is a whole lot bigger than that. One wonders if people truly understood the consequences of their habits on our water supply whether or not they would stop. Unfortunately, when money is at stake, the end seems to justify the means.

With things like large agricultural operations, fracking, radiation from nuclear accidents, chemical and drug dumping, what has not been polluted is more of the question. When it comes to what you can do to protect the water for your family, it is recommended to use water distillers for the safest, freshest water supply. This is water you can trust and made as you need it.

At one time we could actually drink out of streams, swim in lakes, and enjoy the ocean. We could even drink water straight from the tap without any reason to be concerned. That certainly is not the case now. Yes, the water on tap might look ok, smell ok and not taste too bad, but do you really know what is in it? That is the scary part, and even more disturbing if you have children. The fact is that the present generation is polluting the water for the next generation, and they will pay a heavy price for that. Ever wonder why more kids have immune system problems these days? With more than 2100 pollutants swimming about in your water, it’s enough to make you think twice about drinking a glass of tap water.

Do you have a charcoal filter? It is not effective against the many unseen things you do not want to be drinking and may grow pollutants of its own if you do not change it frequently. The most effective and safe way to get fresh water is to use water distillers or have a water distillation system in your home. Not too many people realize the huge number of pollutants that are now a part of the water we take in daily. Water can be filled with organic pollutants such as detergents, food processing waste, cosmetics and personal hygiene products, and tree and other plant matter.

Inorganic water pollution is usually the result of contamination from heavy metals, fertilizers and chemical waste. As you can see, there are a number of ways to pollute our water, and it seems mankind has managed to even add a few more. It is odd that the top executive at a petroleum refinery does not seem to make the connection between his refinery’s waste leaching into the groundwater and polluted tap water. On the other hand, perhaps he is aware, since he may well have bottled water on hand in the office. He would be best served by having water distillers on hand, but even more importantly, if his refinery stopped polluting, safe drinking water could start to return one reformed polluter at a time.

Larry Wardell is with H2olabs.com, a provider of water distiller systems and water distillation systems that provide truly pure distilled water. To learn more, visit H2olabs.com.

September 26, 2011 in Business, Business News, Environment by jferris

Just Because a Glass of Water Looks Clean and Clear Does Not Mean it is Safe

Most people judge water on how it looks. However, just because it looks ok does not mean it is good to drink.

“One of the biggest myths about water is that if it looks good, smells good and tastes ok, then it is safe to drink,” said Larry Wardell, who writes for H2olabs.com, a provider of water distiller systems that provide truly pure distilled water. “Unfortunately, that is not true. Many of the pollutants in our water cannot be seen, tasted or smelled, and frankly that makes them even more dangerous because we have no warning. We just assume that it is safe because it has been through a filtration plant. Filtration plant or not, your water is not safe to drink. Pretty much the only way to ensure you do have safe water is to use water distillers.”

Does anyone really know what they are drinking when they have a glass of water? The answer is usually no. Where are the contaminants coming from? “That is a good question and has a number of answers, but the largest single polluter is agricultural runoff that is a mixture of animal feces, fertilizers and pesticides,” explained Wardell.

Studies done on contaminated groundwater show millions of Americans get sick every year thanks to waterborne viruses, parasites and bacteria in our water today. Our planet once had clean, clear and safe water. People think drinking water comes from lakes and rivers. More than half of our water supply is from groundwater. Consider what that means and the bigger picture becomes clearer. If there are contaminants on the surface of the earth, they will end up in the groundwater when they soak into the soil. Once in the groundwater, they make their way to people’s taps.

“You can see what the problem is,” Wardell noted. “Not to say there isn’t some kind of filtration along the way, but most water filtration plants cannot keep up with the number of pollutants we actually have in the water, which is pushing 2,100.” In the end, it does not matter where the water comes from, just that it is polluted, and the only way to deal with it is to use water distillers or install water distillation systems at home and in the office. It is a guaranteed way to have clean, fresh, safe and good tasting water on hand when needed.

To learn more, visit http://www.h2olabs.com.

September 1, 2011 in Business News, Environment by jferris

Water that Smelled Like Diesel Fuel Shut Down Multiple Businesses Reports H2oLabs

Asheville, North Carolina has been in the news for bad water. This kind of incident happens across America on a regular basis.

It was an ordinary day, until someone went to get a glass of water and reeled back in disgust when they got a good whiff of what came out of the tap. Those who were brave enough to actually try it, despite the taste, ended up spitting it out. If they had access to water distillers, those people would have been able to have that drink of refreshing water, without having to worry about the tap water.

Tests of the water showed high levels of xylene and napthaline, which in plain English are a paint solvent or thinner and something roughly equal to mothballs. Hardly something people would want to ingest. Turns out the chemicals were being leaked into the water system by a customer who did not know he had a back-flow issue, which is something that happens when lines or hoses are left open in a container holding other substances.

“The stuff gets sucked back into the line anytime there is a pressure change in the system,” said Larry Wardell, who writes for H2olabs.com, a provider of water distiller systems that provide truly pure distilled water.

In situations like this, it becomes starkly evident that people need to have another, alternative source of drinking water. One that they have control over and can produce what they need on demand. The perfect solution for dealing with a crisis such as this one is to invest in water distillers or have a water distillation system installed in their homes and/or businesses.

“Distilled water is the way Mother Nature intended it to be; fresh, clean and safe and it can be done on demand. Water distillers are worth their weight in gold, and anytime there is a problem with the tap water, it need not affect those with a water distillation system,” Wardell said.

To learn more, visit http://www.h2olabs.com.

August 31, 2011 in Business Articles, Environment by jferris

City Residents Could Not Even Boil Their Water To Drink After Catastrophe

Not being able to even boil the water to make it safe does not happen often, but when it does, there is a lesson about having access to clean water.

Water contamination is, unfortunately, far too common these days, but this accident bordered on the bizarre. A cleaning contractor mistakenly flushed underground tanks at a hangar at the local airport. That meant that about 200,000 gallons of jet fuel contaminated water was possibly mixed into the city’s water lines, preventing over 18,000 residents from using the water. If they wanted water, they had to visit one of three distribution centers set up in response to this crisis. If people had water distillers in their home or a water distillation system, there would have been no concerns about the water.

Rather than take any chances, the city issued an immediate warning to residents to not drink or use the water for anything, and that included brushing teeth or even doing dishes. In the meantime, officials were trying to work out how the accident happened. There was speculation the accident happened due to either a design flaw with the system that handles the fuel or a plumbing problem.

The unusual thing about this story is that people were told not to boil their water, but instead, to not use it at all for anything. Apparently, not even boiling that water would have made it drinkable, because some of the bacteria in it were resistant to boiling; all the more reason to get smart and buy water distillers or have a water distillation system installed in your home or business, or both.

Having water distillers on hand would have given city residents control of their drinking water and not have forced them to go to a distribution system for rationed water handed out after a 45-minute wait in line.

Larry Wardell is with H2olabs.com, a provider of water distiller systems and water distillation systems that provide truly pure distilled water. To learn more, visit H2olabs.com.

August 30, 2011 in Business Articles, Environment by jferris

The Government is Not Protecting Your Water Enough

Every time you have a drink of water from your tap, you figure it’s safe. Who is protecting your water?

It’s a classic misstatement these days when you read articles about a process called “fracking” that extracts oil from and natural gas from rock formation. Fracking is also referred to as hydraulic fracturing or hydrofracking and, contrary to media reports that the process uses a “brine” for the process, the fluid used is a compound of over 500 nasty chemicals. Those chemicals, for the most part, are also considered to be carcinogenic. And get this. After the process, the water used in fracking is radioactive.

If you have a fracking project anywhere in the vicinity of where you live, you will want to ask some really pointed questions about the safety of your groundwater, which ultimately winds up in your taps. Do you really want to be drinking weird sounding chemicals floating in your radioactive water? Chances are the answer to that question is “no.” To avoid the hassle and concerns, look into water distillers to provide you with safe, fresh and clean water on demand.

The icky concoction used for fracking is getting into groundwater wherever oil and natural gas recovery projects exist. How does that work? What happened to protecting the environment and consumers? What happened is that the frackers have been exempted from the Safe Water Drinking Water Act, the applicable provisions of the Clean Water, Clean Air Act, the Superfund Act, the Hazardous Waste Act and the Environmental Policy Act. You might want to read that again: the industry has been exempted from the acts that should regulate your drinking water and keep it safe. If this doesn’t raise a serious red flag, nothing will.

Do you know what is really in your water? If you have a fracking project nearby, you need to go online and find out for yourself what that means for your water. Just because your water may still taste, look and smell OK, doesn’t mean it is. How can drinking that toxic brew be safe? How can you provide safe drinking water for your family? You can’t, unless you have water distillers in the home, or a water distillation system.

If you don’t think it makes any difference and agree that fracking is necessary, and that they really don’t pollute your groundwater with unimaginable gunk, check out the story about New York and what it is doing to protect their water supply. Did you know they slapped a moratorium on gas drilling because they saw evidence of water contamination? They took steps to safeguard their water and their citizens. Who is making sure “your” water is safe?

If you are not making sure you have safe water, you get what you get out of your tap. It’s not hard to have clean and safe water anytime you want it. All you need to do is use water distillers. It’s just that easy and simple.

Larry Wardell is with H2olabs.com, a provider of water distiller systems and water distillation systems that provide truly pure distilled water. To learn more, visit H2olabs.com.

August 5, 2011 in Business News, Environment by jferris

Living Downstream from a Feedlot Affects Local Groundwater says H2o Labs

Living downstream from a feedlot certainly raises questions about the local groundwater quality.

“In this particular story, you’ve got a homeowner voicing concerns about the ground and surface water that comes downstream to her land from a feedlot just up the road. It has a huge holding pond that has been breaching its sides, spilling manure contaminated water that runs into neighboring properties. This is obviously a major concern when it comes to the quality of the groundwater, and ultimately, what comes into their homes for drinking water,” said Larry Wardell, who writes for H2olabs.com, a provider of water distiller systems that provide truly pure distilled water.

It is not known whether or not the locals are aware of the safety of using water distillers to provide them with safe water, whenever they need it.

“It’s not just the contaminated groundwater that is a concern. The manure stinking and filthy water is now in the local ditches and pooling in area fields. You have to know it is going to end up in the groundwater,” Wardell said.

It seems the feedlot’s holding pond dam burst in 2003 and 2005. Testing in 2005 showed the fecal count was extremely high. In view of this kind of a history, the regulatory agency for the area issued an enforcement order on the feedlot in 2008. The order stated they needed to separate run-off from a spring that was on the feedlot property. One wonders why the agency waited so long to issue an order. According to the agency, the feedlot was built to provincial standards, including a catch basin to hold surface water and culverts to mitigate the runoff problem.

“It doesn’t look like the plant’s system is working, which prompted complaints to the agency,” Wardell said.

The feedlot manager says the water is not seeping into the ground. If it is not, then where do they think it is going? While the agency is investigating the situation, residents could put their minds at ease by checking into installing water distillation systems in their homes. Without a doubt, for those that want the safety of fresh and clean water, at anytime, water distillers fit the bill and produce pure distilled water on demand.

To learn more, visit http://www.h2olabs.com.

August 4, 2011 in Business News, Environment by jferris

Nashville has Water Problems they need to Address reports H2o Labs

Despite the attempt by Nashville to redevelop their riverfront, it seems a local industry has been polluting the water for countless years.

“Nashville has themselves a problem,” said Larry Wardell, who writes for H2olabs.com, a provider of water distiller systems that provide truly pure distilled water. “Their proposed adventure play park is right next door to a company that had been dumping significant amounts of contaminants into the river, such a metal, sediment and hydrocarbons. Hardly an ideal discovery considering what they are trying to do to clean the area up.”

Evidently, the company’s website says it recycles scrap in an environmentally responsible way. However, dumping their waste into the river does not qualify as being environmentally responsible. It seems that the water they use to hose off their mills, which sluices down and puddles in a shimmering sheen, funnels into a drain that leads right to the river. Metal contamination kills fish and other aquatic life, not to mention that it is dangerous to people who come into contact with it or eat fish from the waters.

“The truly shocking thing is that the contaminated water is going right into the local drinking water supply. Even if the city has a relatively good water filtration plant, they cannot get everything out of the water. Over time, the combination of many chemicals and pollutants will affect people’s health, even at low levels,” Wardell said. It is not known how many people in Nashville are aware of the safety of using water distillers to supply their drinking water, etc.

Sadly, the company, when they were notified what they were doing, replied they thought they had been dumping into a drain leading to the sewage treatment plant. They were actually dumping straight into the river and no one knows how long that had been going on. “Despite being told what they were doing wrong, when inspectors checked back in two months, they found the company had done nothing to remedy the situation. This is not only an environmental problem, but it will soon turn into a political flap, as a local councilman has his name on the sign for the new play park,” Wardell said.

Those in the area that are concerned about their water, whether or not it is due to this latest revelation, will be interested in knowing that they can have water distiller systems in their homes and businesses that provide truly pure distilled water, whenever they need it. Pollution then ceases to be an issue.

To learn more, visit http://www.h2olabs.com.

August 3, 2011 in Business Articles, Environment by jferris

Boiling Water With Arsenic In It Only Concentrates It

Arsenic is a natural element found in the earth, in varying concentrations. No matter what the level, it poses a threat to your health.

It has long been known that arsenic in drinking water is not good for you. It has only been recently that a new study has brought forth new evidence of the links between arsenic in your drinking water and heart disease. If you smoke and also drink arsenic laced water, your risks are even higher.

The first link made between heart disease and arsenic laced drinking water was discovered in 1980 in a small town in Chile. They had a dismal record of 17 deaths due to heart attacks in people younger than 40 years old. Over the years since that revelation, the connection between the water and heart attacks has grown stronger. In order to protect yourself and the health of your family, you might want to consider investing in water distillers. They can and will protect you by offering clean, fresh and safe water, the way Mother Nature intended it to be, on demand.

The recent study that clearly shows a link between heart disease, smoking and drinking water with arsenic in it, was conducted in a location in Bangladesh, where the groundwater is polluted with arsenic. The exposures ranged from low to moderate levels of arsenic, and the measurements were taken from local wells. There were 2,000 people involved in the study, tested every two years for about six and a half years. The results were sobering to say the least.

Researchers found that there was a dose related response between being exposed to arsenic in water and deaths from heart disease. The really bad news is that even lower levels of arsenic were needed to cause heart disease; lower than had previously been reported. Overall, just about 30 percent of the deaths caused by heart attacks were attributed, in part, to the levels of arsenic in the well water the participants were drinking. Unfortunately, none of the participants had access to water distillers to act as a control group, not exposed to contaminated water.

Although the risk associated with drinking arsenic contaminated water was high, when linked with those that smoked, or had smoked in the past, the detrimental effects on the heart were evidently intensified. The study also suggested that arsenic laced water led to hardening of the arteries.

It is tough to tell if the water you are drinking does have arsenic in it, unless you take it to be tested. The water looks fine, smells fine and has no taste and unfortunately, even if you think it is contaminated and boil it, boiling only concentrates arsenic. When in doubt about your water supply, opt to have water distillers on hand.

Larry Wardell is with H2olabs.com, a provider of water distiller systems and water distillation systems that provide truly pure distilled water. To learn more, visit H2olabs.com.

August 2, 2011 in Business Articles, Environment by jferris

Flooding Causes Serious Concerns About Contaminated Water

This has been a weird year weather-wise, and flooding seems to be the rule, rather than the exception. Flooding raises concerns about contaminated water.

Pictures of sandbagging efforts have become common in the papers and on other media outlets. The rivers, creeks and other bodies of water, just do not want to stay within their boundaries. If floodwaters breach a local water filtration plant, there is a high level of risk for contamination of the drinking water.

Many affected towns, cities and other areas across America have had to resort to alternative water supplies to handle their daily living chores. Unfortunately, some of the water is from taps in another location, which really does not mean it is clean. It is just not contaminated with the gunk in the flood waters – yet. Those who have water distillers are ahead of the stress of situations like this, as they can get clean, fresh and safe water on demand, not having to worry about flooding or their local water supplies.

Every day, there are pictures showing huge areas completely flooded out, businesses, homes, trailer parks, municipal buildings and schools submerged in dirty river water while the melt continues to dissipate. It will eventually recede, but the damage left behind will be considerable. Pumping and sandbags will help to a certain extent, but in many situations, pumped water just has no place else to go but back into the flood waters threatening various locales.

Flood water is not just dangerous because it floods homes, municipal filtration plants and wells, etc; it is dangerous because it often contains invisible organisms, viruses, fecal matter and other disgusting things you do not want to come into contact with in any way. The fact is that there are over 2,100 hitchhikers in your regular water that you should not be drinking, never mind the addition of floodwater and its baggage.

Local officials in hundreds of locations are issuing warnings to people to wear protective clothing and try not to get any of the floodwater on themselves. Do not let children play in the water, and keep the water and your hands away from your nose, eyes and mouth.

Be very aware of the risk of getting tetanus. Wash hands frequently and if you do not recall when you last got a tetanus shot, get a booster to protect yourself. As for drinking water, cooking water and water for brushing your teeth, the safest, cleanest water you could consume during flooding conditions is that made by water distillers.

Larry Wardell is with H2olabs.com, a provider of water distiller systems and water distillation systems that provide truly pure distilled water. To learn more, visit H2olabs.com.

July 5, 2011 in Business News, Environment by jferris

PG&E Is Looking Into Cleanup Of Chromium 6 Contaminated Water More Than 50 Years Later Says H2o Labs

The old saying, “it’s never too late,” may apply in this case. Or better yet, perhaps “it’s too little, too late,” is more applicable.

More than 50 years after the fiasco that was Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s release of chromium 6 contaminated water into the groundwater around Hinkley, Calif., the company is now forming an advisory committee related to the cleanup of contaminated groundwater. The committee is to be comprised of local leaders and residents to act as monitors and share their concerns on the company’s environmental programs.

“None of those involved with the committee has made mention of the possibility of using water distillers or installing water distillation systems to deal with this issue,” said Larry Wardell, who writes for H2olabs.com, a provider of water distiller systems that provide truly pure distilled water.

The story behind the story here is that PG&E used chromium 6 to kill microbes and give their cooling tower corrosion protection. This went on all through the ’60s and ’70s, long before anyone cottoned on to the cancer risks of chromium 6.

The company also drained chromium 6 contaminated water from the cooling tower, into unlined ponds; where it promptly leached into the town’s groundwater. “If residents had known that was happening, they could have handled the issue by checking into the effectiveness of water distillers. If they wanted clean, fresh and safe water, water distillers would have been and are the best solution,” Wardell said.

Flash forward to 2011 and the town wants to implement civil penalties against the company for not controlling the spread of a chromium 6 contaminated plume beyond boundaries that were set out in 2008. It seems that not much was really done to deal with the problem that initially resulted in a lawsuit that settled in favor of the town residents for $333 million.

Apparently the company has been discussing, for a long time, how to clean things up. The town now feels the time for discussion has passed and it’s time for action to clean up the groundwater. “What the future may hold for Hinkley is anyone’s guess, but suffice it to say that cleaning up their groundwater, something that should have been done a long time ago, is a good place to start. Town residents might want to do some research into the benefits of water distillers to ensure clean and fresh water, on demand,” Wardell said.

To learn more, visit http://www.h2olabs.com.